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Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.
Michael Shermer
Science
Natural
Looking
Thinking
Way
About
Verb
Explanations
Thing
Things
Phenomena
When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations.
Michelle Williams
You
Daughter
Every
More
She
Answer
Different
Movie
Wants
Explanations
Ask
Grows
Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.
Milan Kundera
Change
Every
Scene
New
Explanations
Requires
Descriptions
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
Orson Scott Card
Life
Hope
You
Experience
Training
Will
Important
Other
Everything
Though
No Hope
Inventing
Writer
Come
Most
Questioning
The Most Important
Explanations
Multiple
Things
I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.
Peter Weir
Simple
Remember
Mysteries
Kid
Complex
He
Disappointed
Come
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
Up
Being
Loved
Explanations
Holmes
This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.
Richard Rohr
Life
Love
Journey
Me
Change
Odds
Other
Everything
Seem
Mystery
Put
Feel
Know
Make
Led
To Love
Explanations
Who
Many
Believers
Need
It's a disease we have that we think that everything is explainable. It's a merchandising idea because you can sell explanations and cures for everything, but it doesn't work like that. It's very hard to understand everything.
Stellan Skarsgard
Work
You
Think
Everything
Merchandising
Idea
Like
Because
Understand
Sell
Very
Cures
Disease
Explanations
Hard
Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.
Todd Bridges
Children
Explanations
Deserve
Need
Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.
Tim O'Brien
Science
Obligation
World
Mysteries
Live
Our
Writers
Does
Math
Fiction
Fiction Writers
Stories
Explanations
Enhance
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